Stephen Fry in today’s paper accuses women of having “no interest in sex from the fact that they do not go out seeking casual encounters in graveyards or on Hampstead Heath”. He claimed that women only go to bed with men “because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship”.

I hardly know where to start here, so misguided are Mr Fry’s remarks. First of all, Stephen old fruit, you may be so hard pushed for a sexual encounter that you have to go cruising on Hampstead Heath or elsewhere, but do not impute your own motives, and lack of sexual attraction, to the rest of us. I would not dream of picking up a sexual conquest in a public park, and not simply because I have My Chap at home to keep me warm.